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How to get this effect?


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pi0tr3k
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago       Last edited by   pi0tr3k 11 months  1 week ago
I just saw this nice wallpaper:
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and I'm wondering if someone could help me , teach me, how to make that effect. It's simple but it's really nice, I love it.

All tips are welcome.

Thanks in advance

rakiru
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
It's called light painting. Essentially, you leave the shutter open for a long time and move a bright light around. There are multiple tutorials across the web and in various photography magazines.

If you are interested in recreating this effect purely in photoshop, I can't help you.

Zyt3x
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
No, this isn't made in photoshop or any other software..

It is possible, though, using Photoshop, Lightroom and other 3D software programs, but I'd advise it for only experienced and advanced users; something in which I am not.

Your best shot would be to find a camera and a blue flashlight or something, like rakiru said

MrCrashdummy
aspiring writer
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
What I was wondering, when they do this with a long shutter time won't the person holding the light be visable as well?
Or did they photoshop him/her out?

Zyt3x
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
MrCrashdummy wrote:
What I was wondering, when they do this with a long shutter time won't the person holding the light be visable as well?
Or did they photoshop him/her out?
The person is moving so much, that the camera wont capture a visible image of him or her.

When doing these kind of images, only the things that emmit the same light for the period of time will be captured, which is why the wall in the background is visible, and the light is visible because of the amount of light it emmits is enough to be captured by the camera.

On lower quality images like this, one can actually see the person as a "ghost" behind the light

MrCrashdummy
aspiring writer
  Written 11 months  1 week ago       Last edited by   MrCrashdummy 11 months  1 week ago
Zyt3x wrote:
MrCrashdummy wrote:
What I was wondering, when they do this with a long shutter time won't the person holding the light be visable as well?
Or did they photoshop him/her out?
The person is moving so much, that the camera wont capture a visible image of him or her.

When doing these kind of images, only the things that emmit the same light for the period of time will be captured, which is why the wall in the background is visible, and the light is visible because of the amount of light it emmits is enough to be captured by the camera.

On lower quality images like this, one can actually see the person as a "ghost" behind the light


Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explaining :)

And to the OP, it is possible to create it it in PS, not as good looking, but yeah.
http://www.shotgunfront.com/?loadAction=slow-shutter-effect-tutorial

pi0tr3k
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
Oh ok, thanks for the info guys.

And MrCrashdummy, thanks for the link!

Zyt3x
freshman
  Written 11 months  1 week ago      
The only problem would be the light emission that appears on the surroundings like walls and objects on the ground and so on, but that's do-able in lightroom

hobbnob
freshman
  Written 10 months  3 weeks ago      
This can be done with photoshop using a tablet if you want handwriting or just the text tool. Then go into the layer style and select outer glow and inner glow, then set inner glow to 'center' and set all the colours etc up accordingly. Then it's just a simple matter of integrating the text into the environment :)

I've been quite basic in my explanation, lemme know if you want a more in depth tutorial

koalafishy
bends spacetime
  Written 10 months  3 weeks ago      
Just to say this is actually really easy
I managed to do this on my iPad

I will admit that it took a few try's and the quality is crap yet you can see it says hi so it was a success

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